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This was a doubling of the world, a life copy,
這是個(gè)復(fù)制的世界 生活的翻版
and executed with startling precision of drawing technique.
并以精密得令人驚訝的技術(shù)繪制而成
They even understood modelling,
他們甚至有立體的概念
anatomical features following the rock wall surface of the cave.
洞穴巖壁表面下的剖面結(jié)構(gòu)
And there were many colours,
畫中的色彩也更為豐富
not just the ubiquitous red ochre, but violets and blacks.
不僅有隨處可見的紅褐色 還有紫羅蘭和黑色
And all those techniques
而這些技術(shù)
seem to have been there from the beginning,
似乎從文明開始就已經(jīng)存在了
tens of thousands of years ago.
遠(yuǎn)在幾萬年前
When you think about this technique, your head just spins
要使用這項(xiàng)技術(shù) 你的大腦必須高速運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)
because it has to have been, above all, a memory exercise.
畢竟 這是個(gè)腦力活動(dòng)
They would have had to fix in their mind exact anatomical details
他們必須在腦海中構(gòu)建出具體結(jié)構(gòu)
and then transpose them here on the surface of the cave.
然后把它們轉(zhuǎn)繪到洞穴里的巖壁上
And, yet, when all that was done,
而當(dāng)這一切都實(shí)現(xiàn)后
they managed to preserve miraculously this animal vitality.
他們?cè)O(shè)法奇跡般地保存了這種動(dòng)物的生氣
This is truly one of the great marvels
這確實(shí)是人類突然開闊的思想
of the suddenly expanded human mind.
所創(chuàng)造的偉大奇跡之一
It was in the later years of the 19th century
直到十九世紀(jì)后期
that images like these began to be discovered.
這樣的繪畫才逐漸被發(fā)現(xiàn)
The first, and for many years the most famous,
最早 也是很長時(shí)間內(nèi)最有名的壁畫
were in the caves of Altamira,
是在阿爾塔米拉石洞被發(fā)現(xiàn)的
also in northern Spain.
也位于西班牙北部
Extraordinary paintings of bison, herds of them,
壁畫上成群的野牛超凡絕倫
sleeping, lying, standing.
睡著的 躺著的 站著的
